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Posted by Livett on Sun Jan 23rd at 1:59pm 2005

I am trying to make it so that the floor to one of my rooms is made up of lots of breakable planks, and that when you step on a plank, it will creak and then break 1 second after.

I have got it working so that all this happens, except the sound won't play. I have an:

[e]ambient_generic[/e]

Name: Creak

Soundname: ambient/misc/wood3.wav

Volume: 10

Startvolume: 0

Max Audible Distance: 875

Inputs:

Source Output Input Delay Once

trigger_once onstarttouch playsound 0.00 yes

Flags:

Play everywhere

Start Silent

Is not looped





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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jan 23rd at 2:14pm 2005

and the trigger? is it pointing to this entity? [addsig]



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Posted by Livett on Sun Jan 23rd at 2:20pm 2005

Yes. I did put in the inputs to the sound entity.

Is it something to do with soundscapes?





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Posted by Livett on Sun Jan 23rd at 2:23pm 2005

Ah, the sound is playing... but on my computer it is too quiet to hear, I could only hear it when I put sound up full blast. Which is strange because when I had sound up full my footstep sounds were almost breaking my speakers.

Also i used the sound show thing and it definately does play

Any ideas why?





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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Jan 23rd at 3:22pm 2005

if its a custom sound, i would check it with a sound editor first, making sure my audible levels are up to snuff, tweak as necessary, and go from there....making sure also that the paths are correct....///2 cents...

Doc B...

[addsig]



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Posted by omnix32 on Sun Jan 23rd at 3:47pm 2005

I had this same problem with certain sounds. They play fine if used in a soundscape but you can hardly hear them if you use the ambient generic.

I have herd that the ambient_generic got broken somehow is some update. Not sure on this.

I use custom soundscapes now and things seem to work fine. Also soundscapes allow you greater control of things and you are able to play random sounds.






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Posted by 101001 on Mon Jan 24th at 2:40am 2005

im having the same problem, could someome please post a tutorial on how to properly use sound scapes, because I dont get this at all

I have an ambient_generic that is supposed to play, but nothing comes out of it.
it uses .wav and is a normal hl2 sound, it supposed to always be playing and be a loop, but for some reason I can't hear it.




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Posted by omegaslayer on Mon Jan 24th at 4:53am 2005

Why is the start volume "0"? Try changing that to 10, otherwise you should alter the "spin-up" settings. [addsig]




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